his career elsewhere. ronnie o sullivan is through to the semi finals of the masters for the fifteenth time after beating barry hawkins. it was a scrappy match at alexandra palace in london with both players making mistakes. this miss by hawkins when he was 50 points ahead in the ninth frame cost him dear as o sullivan cleared the table to win by six frames to three. the seven time champion will face shaun murphy orjack lisowski on saturday. more snooker on the bbc website at 7pm and sportsday at six. that s all for now. let s return to the story that is dominated the headlines for days without let s return to the story that is dominated the headlines for without yesterday we heard how the government planned to right the wrongs of the post office horizon it scandal and the damage it caused to the lives of hundreds of innocent people. today the inquiry into the scandal has taken centre stage with one of the post office
people are not giving up on the democratic future and neither will we. so those are some of the latest comments from the us secretary of state. we will be live in the british house of commons in the next little while to get the latest on that statement from the british government. but we will come away from sudan for a moment or two and we will head to the bbc sport centre because it is time to round up all the sports news of the day and get on its back. yes, thanks very much indeed. the chinese snooker players through to the quarterfinals of the world championships in sheffield, the chinese player being the lowest ranked player left in the tournament had 80 of the world. he started the day 11 5 up against wilkins, the englishman tried to fight back, but couldn t stop the chinese player clinching the match by 13 7. he will play anthony mcgill in orjack lisowski in the last eight. the match against wilson will also
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